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Job description / Role
Company Profile:
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create, market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.
Job Profile:
- Department Finance
Work Level 1:
- Job Position Supply Chain Assistant Finance Manager - Gulf
- Reports to SCF FINANCE MANAGER - KSA & Gulf
- Location: DUBAI
Main Purpose Of The Role:
- The individual will be principal Finance business partner to the KSA Ex Com and the KSA SC Director on all SC matters.
- The role demands end to end responsibility on all finance matters within Supply Chain operations.
- The individual needs to build SC Information capability and to support Regional/MCO projects.
Main accountabilities:
Business Partnering
- BP SC director/ExCom and their team
- BU SC LT meeting, monthly calls, SC review with SC VP
GMVA
- Ensure compliance to AAC guideline.
- Partner with BU SM team & provide cost forecast for Financial forecating;
- Ensure SC Finance review & approval process on savings reported in ISIS.
- Ensure reconciliation of commodity impact between SM forecast and GMVA.
SC Indirects
- Establish mechanism to monior & control SC Indirects
- Deliver BU SC indirects in line with OP target as % TO by partnering with BU SC Director
BW Reduction
- Deliver BU BW reduction in line with internal (OP) target by partnering with CSE
Information Support
Establish reliable source of information for decision making:
- Accurate & timely standard monthly deck
- Provide timely & correct input for BU SC booklet
Establish SC BP Function
- Resource and develop local BU SC finance team to take on effective SC finance BP.
TWC Reduction
- Drive inventory & creditors reduction in line with internal targets working with CSE and SM team
CAPEX
- Implement standard template and improve speed of approval
- Effective monitoring of actual investment
Cash & Cost
- Support BU SC Director in running the program and
- Achieve Savings and Cash Target
Transfer Pricing
- Ensure application of AAC guideline on transfer pricing
UAPL Sourcing
- Tracking impact on WC for BU
- SC Restructuring
- Delivery monitoring of redundancy cost and savings vs proposal
Key relationships
Internal:
- SC Director & team
- BU Finance team
- NAME SC Finance team
- HR & IT
- Outsourced operations - Capgemini, IBM, Akili
- Information Office, Treasury, Central support and transaction processing teams
External:
- Auditors
- Third party suppliers
- Capgemini
Requirements
Critical success factors of the job
- Bachelor's degree in accounting - professional qualification (CA/ICWA/CIMA) will be preferred.
- Strong accounting skills, good knowledge of supply chain
- 3-5 years' experience in managing operations independently - either in a company or in a specialized Finance function
About the Company
Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.
Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.
From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.
We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.